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Thoughts on most recent poll results, deer hunting success, tree climbing risk

To add to one of the points @Plebe made on East vs West style hunting.

I'm in Michigan, hunt public. In say June a deer can be bedded down 5-7 yards off the road with a screen in between. You can walk by talking and it'll stay put. They'll let you watch them browse around. As long as you don't approach them.

By the second week of October that deer is the heck out of dodge when it hears you on the road. Or your truck stops. Sure you can still see deer in the open but getting in range is another story.
 
kbetts said:
I don't climb trees to kill deer as much as I climb trees to remain undetected by the ones I DON'T want to shoot.
Shooting deer from the ground isn't hard. Remaining undetected through multiple encounters is.


But you all knew that.
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This was the one big one I’ve acknowledged - I am generally much less picky than lots of folks. And it does make it more likely you’re getting picked in some ground encounters.

The other is the legal or social norm requirement in urban settings to hunt elevated.



That said - it’s within the argument I’m making. I climb trees when that’s the best way to kill the deer I want to kill. Sometimes it means being up there so others can walk by.


I’m more focused on climbing trees without thought, and with thinking you’re safer than you are, and that deer are more likely to be under you than they are.

If you’re considering the micro behavior of deer you’re passing on in the equation - you’re probably not in that category.
 
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